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Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often
unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife
with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which
compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners.
This book explores how this happens and how we can change it. This
interdisciplinary volume is grounded in a framework that challenges
the dominant discourse that health in fat individuals must be
improved through weight loss. The first part explores the negative
impacts of bias, discrimination, and other harms by health care
providers against fat individuals. The second part addresses how we
can 'fatten' pedagogy for current and future health care providers,
discussing how we can address anti-fat bias in education for health
professionals and how alternative frameworks, such as Health at
Every Size, can be successfully incorporated into training so that
health outcomes for fat people improve. Examining what works and
what fails in teaching health care providers to truly care for the
health of fat individuals without further stigmatizing them or
harming them, this book is for scholars and practitioners with an
interest in fat studies and health education from a range of
backgrounds, including medicine, nursing, social work, nutrition,
physiotherapy, psychology, sociology, education and gender studies.
Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often
unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife
with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which
compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners.
This book explores how this happens and how we can change it. This
interdisciplinary volume is grounded in a framework that challenges
the dominant discourse that health in fat individuals must be
improved through weight loss. The first part explores the negative
impacts of bias, discrimination, and other harms by health care
providers against fat individuals. The second part addresses how we
can ‘fatten’ pedagogy for current and future health care
providers, discussing how we can address anti-fat bias in education
for health professionals and how alternative frameworks, such as
Health at Every Size, can be successfully incorporated into
training so that health outcomes for fat people improve. Examining
what works and what fails in teaching health care providers to
truly care for the health of fat individuals without further
stigmatizing them or harming them, this book is for scholars and
practitioners with an interest in fat studies and health education
from a range of backgrounds, including medicine, nursing, social
work, nutrition, physiotherapy, psychology, sociology, education
and gender studies.
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Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography - 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, EP'98 Held Jointly with the 4th International Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, RIDT '98, St. Malo France, March 30 - April 3, 1998 (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Roger Hersch, Jacques Andre, Heather Brown
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This book presents the refereed proceedings of the EP'98 and
RIDT'98 conferences, held jointly during the Second International
Week on Electronic Publishing and Typography in St. Malo, France,
in March/April 1998. The 43 revised full papers presented were
carefully selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics
covered are artistic imaging, tools and methods in typography,
non-latin type, typographic creation, imaging, character
recognition, handwriting models, legibility and design issues,
fonts and design, time and multimedia, electronic and paper
documents, document engineering, documents and linguistics,
document reuse, hypertext and the Web, and hypertext creation and
management.
Non-communicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the
leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries.
Prevention and treatment of the causes and consequences of
lifestyle-related diseases forms an important part of health policy
in the twenty-first century. Public health economics - from
quantifying the problem, to evaluating interventions and developing
toolkits to assist decision makers - is an essential area for any
postgraduate student and researcher with an interest in applied
economics to understand. There are a wide range of techniques from
mainstream economics and health economics that can be applied to
the evaluation of public health policy and public health issues. In
this book, Brown presents examples from developed countries to
illustrate how economic tools can be applied to public health.
Further, cross-country comparisons illustrate how contextual
factors related to healthcare systems, demographics and
environmental factors may impact on outcomes and the
cost-effectiveness of public health policies, in order to aid
understanding and help students apply theory into practice.
Richly illustrated, sweetly written book answers the question:
"What makes a robot tick?"
What makes a robot tick? Here's a hint: It's not what you think.
"The Robot Book" teams richly drawn illustrations and a whole lot
of heart in a sturdy, toddler-friendly board book that will charm
both little ones and their parents. It's the perfect way for kids
to learn that it's what's on the inside that really counts.
This first book-length study devoted to Marx's perspectives on
gender and the family offers a fresh look at this topic in light of
21st century concerns. Although Marx's writings sometimes exhibit
sexism, his work often transcends it. Brown studies those writings
on gender, as well as his 1879-1882 notebooks on precapitalist
societies and gender, some of them still unpublished in any
language. This study attempts to fill a significant gap in the
literature on Marx and offer some general insights into the
intersectionality of gender and class.
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